... faculty completed the survey, representing a 42 percent response rate. In total, 78 of those responding (39 percent) indicated that they were STEM faculty. Gender Organizational culture Higher education Career development Sciences Diversification In the sections that follow, we detail what...

...Dr Brigitte Liebig and Dr René Levy; Elena Makarova; Walter Herzog Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gender stereotype of science by analysing the semantic attributes of gender in relation to three science subjects – chemistry, mathematics, and physics – among students...

..., top-down policies may prove less “corrective” than affirmative action. This pressure is not only useful to build gender equality in science but also to broaden the spectrum of knowledge that can become a common good. Research limitations/implications – As neither the names nor the positions...

...Inge L. Bleijenbergh; Marloes L. van Engen; Claartje J. Vinkenburg Purpose In the context of research on the career advancement of women and men in academia, this paper aims to reflect on how deans at six schools of a Dutch arts and a Dutch sciences‐based university construct the image...

.... Findings The authors’ analysis suggests that students’ resistance to communication instruction is gendered. Students often constructed hierarchical relationships where communication was considered “soft” in relation to the “hard” science of engineering instead of integral to the discipline and profession...

... in their chosen professions in science, engineering and technology. Design/methodology/approach An explorative empirical study was conducted. In total, 12 female computer scientists in Austria who voluntarily quit their jobs were interviewed with respect to motives, reasons and experiences in their rather...

...Keith J. Bowman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to establish greater understanding of changes in gender diversity at the undergraduate, graduate and faculty levels for a small engineering discipline, materials science and engineering (MSE), and how it may be related to different cultures...

...Ulla Wischermann European   Commission . Mapping the Maze: Getting More Women to the Top in Research . 2008 . Brussels Internet publication: available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science‐society/document_library/pdf_06/mapping‐the‐maze‐getting‐more‐women‐to‐the‐top...

...Birgit Blättel‐Mink; Caroline Kramer; Anina Mischau; Gad Yair Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study gender differentials in scientific productivity while looking at academic discipline and advisor practices. The natural sciences and the liberal arts are shown to constitute two...

...Birgit Blättel‐Mink; Caroline Kramer; Anina Mischau; Kordula Kugele Purpose This conference review aims to address major issues regarding the position of women in science and technology as well as key technical topics in the debate of globalisation with a specific focus on chances and new...

...Birgit Blättel‐Mink; Caroline Kramer; Anina Mischau; Anna Zalevski; Laura Swiszczowski Purpose There are few female‐led enterprises in the male‐dominated occupations of science, engineering and technology (SET) and very little research is devoted to this area. The purpose of this paper...

...Jacqueline Scott; Jane Nolan; Daiga Kamerāsde Purpose The paper aims to critically review four recently published books, each of which aims to explain the disproportionate representation of men and women in science careers, and to understand gender differences in achievements and productivity...

.... Design/methodology/approach The empirical investigation is based on a sample of 45 female employees working in science, engineering and technology (SET)‐related positions and 48 SET‐related companies. Data were collected through the empirical survey of SMEs and semi structured “face‐to‐face” interviews...